SABC tells the CCMA that Hlaudi Motsoeneng is unqualified to hold any executive job at the South African public broadcaster, as the famously matricless liar battles to try and get his job back.

The SABC's deputy chairperson, Khanyisile Kweyama, told the CCMA on Tuesday that the famously matricless Hlaudi Motsoeneng that was fired in June 2017 isn't qualified to hold any executive job at the South African public broadcaster.

It comes as the famously matricless liar who made up fake symbols for a fake matric certificate that he didn't have - something he admitted in a recorded interview with the Public Protector - is battling to get his job back at the SABC and fighting his firing after Hlaudi Motsoeneng held a ranting and raving press conference on 19 April 2017 attacking the SABC and was sacked shortly after.

Hlaudi Motsoeneng was replaced by Chris Maroleng who became the SABC's new permanent chief operating officer (COO) since February this year and who has a BA (Hons) and MA degree from the University of Cape Town in addition to several postgraduate scholarships.

Khanyisile Kweyama, giving evidence in the arbitration process at the CCMA, told the CCMA that Hlaudi Motsoeneng is wholly unqualified for job positions at the SABC.

"According to the rulings around COO and also the public protector's recommendations which we were tasked with implementing, Hlaudi Motsoeneng does not qualify to hold the position of chief
operating officer and, subsequently, corporate affairs," said Khanyisile Kweyama.

Khanyisile Kweyama said the minimum qualification for any executive position is a postgraduate or a master's qualification.

"The specs required that it should be someone who should hold postgraduate qualifications, preferably an MBA in business, and that is what our permanent COO has. The group executive corporate affairs position also requires a junior degree as well as a postgraduate qualification in communications or anything related to that field and a master's in business studies," said Khanyisile Kweyama.

Hlaudi Motsoeneng has Standard 8 (Grace 10) and lied about having a matric certificate.

"The specs required that it should be someone who should hold postgraduate qualifications, preferably an MBA in business, and that is what our permanent COO has. The group executive corporate affairs position also requires a junior degree as well as a postgraduate qualification in communications or anything related to that field and a master's in business studies," said Khanyisile Kweyama.

Parliament chooses 12 new permanent SABC board members; shuts out SA's TV production sector with no representation.

Parliament has chosen a new permanent SABC board that includes the entire 5-person interim SABC board as well as one former SABC board member but not a single person from South Africa's TV production sector responsible for giving the SABC its local content.

The names of the 12 SABC board nominees will become permanent after president Jacob Zuma has rubber-stamped their appointment.

On Tuesday parliament's portfolio committee for communications nominated the entire 5-person SABC interim board to continue serving. These include Khanyisile Kweyama, Mathatha Tsedu, Krish Naidoo, Febe Potgieter-Gqubule and John Matisonn.

The former SABC board member Rachel Kalidass who was fired previously, has been chosen to return.

Other members include Nomvuyiso Batyi, Michael Markovitz, Bongumusa Makhathini, Dinkwanyane Mohuba, Victor Rambau and Jack Phalane.

The 12 names will be submitted to the National Assembly for adoption and recommendation to President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday.

The term of the current interim SABC board expires at the end of this month.

The new SABC board interestingly doesn't include a single person from South Africa's production industry, although some applied.

With the SABC sinking financially and losing ratings, the South African public broadcaster desperately needs people with actual, broad-based broadcasting experience - something in short supply in the new SABC board.

Going forward, the struggling SABC battling to pay producers and production companies and to make quality local content, will not have a single person from this very important sector representing their voice on the SABC board.

In a statement on Tuesday afternoon the Democratic Alliance (DA) political party's member of parliament, Phumzile Van Damme, said that the ANC political party, "given an opportunity to give the SABC a new start", instead "chose to use their majority to force unsuitable candidates onto the SABC board".

"Despite the best efforts of the DA and other opposition parties in the committee, it seems as through cadre-deployment is yet again set to return to the SABC".

The DA and other opposition parties strongly objected to the re-deployment of ANC cadres Febe Potgieter-Gqubule and Krish Naidoo on the new SABC board.

The EFF political party member of parliament Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said Febe Potgieter-Gqubule "failed dismally to understand the times and epoch the SABC is entering. She thinks it is correct being an ANC deployee into the board".

Febe Potgieter-Gqubule revealed during her interview that she could be running for the ANC NEC if nominated, and Krish Naidoo word as a legal advisor in Luthuli House for the ANC.

Dikwanyane Mohuba who also has no broadcasting experience is connected to former ANC Limpopo chairperson Cassel Mathale and Bongumusa Makhathini who knows nothing about public broadcasting is the chairperson of the foundation of Jacob Zuma's wife, Bongi Ngema-Zuma.

SABC spin tsar Kaizer Kganyago again goes on SABC News to say the SABC's requested billion rand bailout from government is not a 'bailout' - but it is.

The SABC spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago again went on SABC News (DStv 404) to say that the SABC's latest billion rand requested bailout from the South African government is not a "bailout" - only it is.

Hilariously, Khanyisile Kweyama, SABC board interim chairperson, herself uses the word bailout to describe the latest financial lifeline of billions of rand the SABC urgently requires for the cash-strapped and struggling South African public broadcaster to stay afloat.

Other SABC interim board members like journalist and editor Mathatha Tsedu also uses the word bailout.

Funnily enough, the essentially bankrupt South African Airways (SAA) - awaiting yet another mega-billion bailout from government - and South Africa's government are both calling and referring to the SAA's looming cash-injection as a bailout.

Yet the SABC's Kaizer Kganyago wants to spin the SABC's bailout as not being a bailout - but it is.

Question: Can the SABC, once again hovering on the edge of a financial cliff like it did in 2009 when it got a government bailout, get the money without the South African government guaranteeing a mega-billion rand bank loan for the SABC?

No.

That is what makes it a bailout.

The ameliorative way the SABC wants to talk away what it wants and what will likely be happening - a bailout - by using padded, softened words, is a disservice to the South African public.

The dictionary definition of a bailout reads: "an act of giving financial assistance to a failing business or economy to save it from collapse".

"A bailout is a situation in which a business, an individual or a government offers money to a failing business to prevent the consequences that arise from the business's downfall. Bailouts can take the form of loans, bonds, stocks or cash."

From the economic definition, it's very clear that what the SABC requested is a bailout, and that, if given again by the government, would be classified and can very correctly be described as a bailout.

It is important to not use euphemisms and SABC PR speak like "government-guarantee" when the word "bailout" is what the SABC is asking for and a bailout is what the mismanaged SABC wants just 9 years after its previous bailout.

Extremely troubling is the secrecy of Ayanda Dlodlo, minister of communications, around the SABC's latest bailout.

Ayanda Dlodlo promised transparency but is actively blocking the South African TV industry, SABC audiences and the South African public from knowing what bailout amount the SABC asked the South African government for.

Ayanda Dlodlo's refusal to make the SABC bailout amount requested public - a billion rand amount she's kept secret for over two months and counting now - damages democracy and South Africa's TV industry.

Without knowing the bailout amount, the South African public, citizens and South Africa's TV industry can't debate the issue; can't have a public conversation of whether it's appropriate, or whether its sizeable enough or not.

Is appears that Ayanda Dlodlo wants to announce to South Africa's TV industry and the South African public only that the SABC got a bailout after its been approved by South Africa's treasury - an after-the-fact, fait accompli.

South Africans are not trusted - in fact held in apparent contempt - by Ayanda Dlodlo who is not transparent publicly about what the nature is the financial help is that the SABC requires, although she knows.

It's not clear why South Africa can only know after the SABC has been given a bailout, what the bailout was/is/will be.

With other government bailouts - for instance SAA, and others - the request is made public knowledge with ordinary South Africans knowing what size of money injection has been asked from the government - a government funded by its people.

Part of an open democracy - and for it to function successfully - is for its government and public institutions to communicate accurately with its citizens and to use correct words, and also to give citizens access to the public information from its public institutions to help them to make better and informed decisions.

The SABC's PR tsar Kaizer Kganyago demands a 'full apology' from The Star - and the newspaper actually prints the tacky demand.

The SABC's PR tsar Kaizer Kganyago demands a full apology from The Star newspaper in a way that further illustrates just how far the SABC's relationship with other media has deteriorated and that also sheds more light on how bad the South African public broadcaster's actual public relations with the press has become.

The SABC's Kaizer Kganyago says the public broadcaster demands a full apology from Independent Media's The Star for a story about the SABC.

The SABC "demands" its apology in these following words - something that that The Star actually printed: "The SABC would like to have a full apology published in your newspaper today, SABC spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago".

Of course there hasn't been any full apology from The Star to the SABC and I won't be surprised if there won't be.

Proper media and especially newspapers don't respond kindly to these types of "notices" for lack of a better word.

The SABC Kaizer Kganyago is making the demand saying "the SABC noted with concern the gross misrepresentation in the article, 'Zuma delays SABC probe' (10 July, The Star)."

"This article carried a subtitle which states that the 'Interim board wants to SIU action to stop Hlaudi accessing millions', which is a complete distortion as the interim board has not at any point made this proclamation".

"The first paragraph of the article also indicates that the 'SABC is concerned that delays by president Jacob Zuma to sign a Special Investigating Unit (SIU) proclamation to probe the rot at the cash-strapped public broadcaster could see its former boss Hlaudi Motsoeneng cashing in on his pension millions".

"It must be noted that this is also incorrect as the SABC has not made such utterances; your article should properly indicate the sources of this information and not be written as if the SABC has said so."

"We therefore request your publication to rectify these negative implications as they have a great potential in damaging the reputation of the SABC's interim board, the SABC brand and they will also confuse the public."

Now, it's quite ugly to see how the SABC sent something like that to a newspaper and in my opinion it's indicative of how the SABC's media relationships with the press have soured and continues to erode instead of improving.

Why is the SABC and Kaizer Kganyago sending something like this to The Star? Why is this handled publicly and why did Kaizer Kganyago not go to The Star editor's office personally to go and have a private conversation? Too many Muvhango episodes to catch on now that the SABC is rerunning 20-year old episodes on SABC2 in primetime as well?

Has the SABC's Kaizer Kganyago even met Kevin Ritchie as editor of The Star? Has he sat down with The Star's news editor Mojalefa Mashego? Did he first go and have a one-on-one meeting with the news editor to explain the situation, taken anyone for coffee?

I would guess not. Yet, that is what publicists and spokespeople worth their salt do, instead of ignoring and not responding to media enquiries and sending notices like this to newspapers.

Good and effective public relation practitioners build relationships and engage media, tirelessly work on fostering rapport and building working relationships instead of antagonising the media and journalists.

By being nice, responsive, properly responding to media enquiries, sending out press releases timeously and to the right people, help to get your real, correct message across - something that the beleaguered SABC's spokespeople and PRs for a long time seem to not understand.

In fact, it seems as if they're deliberately doing the opposite of what would help to build and restore the SABC's tattered brand image.

It doesn't even seem as if media and journalists want to go and attend SABC media briefings anymore - something that's perhaps (and there's other reasons as well) partially due to the fact of how bad the SABC has run press conferences over the past year and a half.

Interestingly to note is that The Times followed up on the SIU story with Khanyisile Kweyama, who as the interim SABC chairperson - and directly representing the public broadcaster, told The Times that Hlaudi Motsoeneng's case has been handed over to the SIU to "fast-track the investigation so that we can lay criminal charges and recover payments if the end of the investigation is that there are recoveries to be made."

It feels and seems so odd and awkward for the SABC's Kaizer Kganyago to chime in with the demand for an apology from The Star when SABC interim board members are other SABC insiders are constantly talking about the SIU, its pending investigation, the R11.4 million that was paid to Hlaudi Motsoeneng as part of the extremely controversial SABC MultiChoice channels deal for DStv, the shocking R9 million payouts to certain artists and the disastrous Thank You SABC Concert.

There is one point in the demand to The Star where Kaizer Kganyago is absolute correct.

Public perception matters. It matters a huge deal. But part of managing public perception is of managing it - and doing so properly. You can't do nothing, or take actions that creates the opposite perceptions, and expect things to work out if you don't  know how the media works, or work with them.

The SABC's Kaizer Kganyago should perhaps go to the closest Auckland Park library and use his library card for Dale Carnegie's book How to Win Friends and Influence People and read that.

For to demand a "full apology" in the crass and trashy way it comes across and that it was just done with The Star, in my opinion, only ends up with someone losing friends and alienate the media further.

The SABC is a public broadcaster - its essence, supposedly, communication.

The people who speak for it, and how they say it, can - and should - be so much better.

SABC admits the South African public broadcaster failed to consult the public on its policy changes; is 'resusitating' public consultation for updates as it falls back on 2004 policy.

The beleaguered SABC on Thursday admitted that the public broadcaster failed to do proper public consultation on its revised editorial policies pushed through in late 2016, and that the SABC is embarking on a new, month and a half long nationwide consultation drive to get comments to update its policies.

After complaints, South Africa's broadcasting regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) found that the SABC's process to hastily update and push through its editorial policy in 2016 failed to properly and adequately involve public participation.

The policy change was done and pushed through so that the SABC could effectively enact its TV news censorship, banning the broadcast of visuals depicting the destruction of property during public protests.

Despite saying there were public consultation with the public and civil society groups as required by South Africa's Broadcasting Act, there were none, with the SABC's disgraced and fired former chief operating officer (COO) Hlaudi Motsoeneng, and the former minister of communications, Faith Muthambi, who lied.

The SABC has been forced to return and work from its outdated 2004 editorial policy for the past 9 months since 2004 was the last time Icasa approved an SABC editorial policy.

At a press conference that was not well attended and only saw a few media pitching at its Auckland Park head office on Thursday afternoon, chairperson of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Khanyisile Kweyama "we are today launching the review project of the SABC editorial policies."

Khanyisile Kweyama said the SABC is "resusitating" the consultation process with the public "following Icasa's ruling that the SABC didn't comply with the Broadcasting Act in reviewing or amending the 2004 editorial policies".

"In 2013 the SABC started a process to review the editorial policies which resulted in the 2016 policies that were filed with Icasa," said Khanyisile Kweyama. "However the SABC failed to adhere to section 6.6 regarding public participation, so not adequate consultation."

Khanyisile Kweyama said Icasa ordered the policies invalid in terms of the Broadcasting Act. "So we reverted to the 2004 editorial policies. We are currently governed by the 2004 editorial policies".

Khanyisile Kweyama said two SABC teams will travel through South Africa, visiting two provinces at a time, to do public participation roadshows "in town halls and under the trees".

A draft policy will be created, that the SABC promises will this time be opened for public comments.

After that the SABC board will compile a final draft that will be send to Icasa for approval.

"Part of our mandate is to restore credibility and the governance at the SABC. It's through lack of governance that policies were changed without through a proper process."

Tseliso Ralitabo, acting SABC CEO, said "we just are going to be depending on the integrity that we're trying to build back for the organisation".

"The process that we have started is really that of building the integrity we think have been eroded over time, and we can only hope that whoever will be following up on us will adhere and keep to the same policies that we have put in place."

The SABC will now visit all 9 provinces between 31 July and 31 August and do public participation roadshows to get the public's opinion and input on 6 different policy aspects that urgently needs to be updated.

These include news and editorial, programming, local content for TV and radio, language, religion and universal service.

South Africans and organisations can access the various policies at sabc.co.za/policies and get a compilation of all the policies at sabc.co.za/editorialpolicy .

People can post their views and comments to SABC Private Bag X1, Aucklandpark, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2006 and email comments to editorial@sabc.co.za or phone the SABC switchboard on 011 714 9111 or 011 7149797, or fax 011 714 4508.

Some thoughts on the SABC's Thursday afternoon media briefing that was still bad - and badly attended - but better than the chaotic pressers of 2016.

On Thursday afternoon the SABC held (yet another) media briefing at its Auckland Park headquarters in Johannesburg.

The SABC announced called the media to attend, to announce that the SABC is embarking on a new public policy review process to update 6 of its policies after the broadcasting regulator Icasa ruled that the SABC's 2016 editorial policy update was illegal because it failed to consult the public.

While the SABC's press conference on Thursday afternoon was still bad and very badly done - it's not just the SABC PR tsar Kaizer Kganyago's duo-chromatic satorial choices that seem stuck in the 80s - the SABC managed to do a better media briefing than all of the chaotic and unorganised trash pressers of 2016.

The SABC continues to struggle with optics, and to get things - for instance its media briefings - to look "right".

Here's some personal thoughts on Thursday afternoon's briefing and things I noticed:

■ The media briefing was very badly attended
Whose problem and fault was that? Probably the SABC that seems out of touch. Only a few media outlets and journalists pitched - bad for something that the SABC presumably wants to get buy-in for, and wide exposure for.

It doesn't seem as if the SABC's PR and corporate communications division really knows the media anymore, or has kept up with who the most relevant, correct media stakeholders are.

The big problem for the bad attendance is the SABC's own fault and is twofold. The SABC's lack of credibility and failure to start on time.

For a long while - right through 2015 and 2016 - the SABC absolutely destroyed its own credibility and its credibility when it comes to any professionalism regarding its media briefings.

The SABC gave too short prior notification, went too long, allowed speakers to rant and rave, reacted with bombastic hostility to media and has a problem starting on time, making journalists wait after sending out urgent invitations.

A lot of media I talk to say they're unwilling to make the effort to go to the SABC if it's going to be a mess. The SABC will have to put in real one-on-one work to (re)engage with editors and journalists. It's not something that will magically fix itself.

It's terrible that the SABC announces something like a public review process for its editorial policies and can't get more than a handful of media to attend.

■ Timing
Perpetually late, Thursday's SABC media briefing started almost on time - the best yet after a string of late starts for several press briefings.

Hopefully this aspect will continue to improve, because media are no longer willing to go to the SABC for press conference and wait for an hour and longer with nothing happening and no updates.

It's not even a basic courtesy issue. News editors and journalists have tight deadlines, and the SABC causes havoc by not having any sense of urgency and making it difficult for media to file stories,and with news editors wondering why journalists are away to do one basic press briefing story for so long.

"I hope that today we have redeemed ourselves," said Khanyisile Kweyama, chairperson of the SABC interim board on Thursday afternoon.

"The last time we had a press conference, we started about an hour and a half late. So in your eyes I hope we are improving".

■ Unnecessary talking heads
The SABC unprofessionally continues to drag out a bunch of people for media briefings as if the number of executives it puts on display somehow is supposed to - what? - visually show corporate ballast or that people are working?

It doesn't work and signals an amateurish, childish approach to feign a type of "all hands on deck" image.

It doesn't work and the SABC is clueless about how other broadcasters do it, while media laugh behind their hands every time the SABC does these kind of "hand puppet" shows.

On Thursday the SABC once again looked amateur when it seemed it didn't even know how many people it was going to put up at its latest show-and-tell.

After everyone were seated, here came Bessie Tugwana, acting chief operating officer (COO).

Now there wasn't enough seats behind the black curtain table. So Philly Moilwa, the SABC's head of policy and regulatory affairs division, had to get up and go get another chair.

Question: Why is Bessie Tugwana there if the acting SABC CEO Tseliso Ralitabo is present? Redundant.

Question: Why is SABC interim board member Krish Naidoo there (who didn't get to speak a word) if the chairperson of the SABC interim board is there? Superfluous.

This whole presser could have been conducted by one spokesperson, and one person like Khanyisile Kweyama.

Make it as easy and as singular as possible for the media to cover, and to get your message across.

"Thank you chair for having stolen the thunder. She has actually given you the whole gist in terms of where we begin and where we end," said Philly Moilwa when he eventually got to talk, perfectly illustrating the problem the SABC keeps making.

■ The SABC's TV ads to alert the public
In the bigger overall scheme of things this is really a 0.001% problem and probably nobody but only the very, very eagle-eyed will notice or care.

On Thursday afternoon the SABC showed two of its series of in-house TV commercials it will be running to alert people about the policy review process.

Question: Why is there a spelling mistake in the (yellow) one? Interference isn't spelled "interferance".

Question: Why are old SABC news readers and even Noeleen Maholwana Sangu of the former 3Talk included? They're not even on SABC TV anymore.

■ Bessie Tugwana
Bessie Tugwana talks in a way where she doesn't come across as COO material.

Her non-answer answers are so obtuse - just like in parliament - that one wonders whose idea it is to roll her out in front of the press.

■ Black and white
The SABC is far from digital but at least SABC spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago wore a black-and-white barcode tie that's almost, kind of digital.

Bra Kaizer also continues to say stuff that's not quite true.

"People want to give an impression that the SABC doesn't care about local content," said Kaizer Kganyago on Thursday.

Uhm, nobody has ever said that.

"We are the ones that are developing the industry. We are the ones that are going out there to make sure that we get as much local content as we can," said Kaizer Kganyago.

The fact is that the SABC is behind in paying local production companies. That doesn't develop but actually breaks and negatively impacts the industry.

OUTA calls on SABC to block further mega-million payouts to SABC's disgraced Hlaudi Motsoeneng after his looting: 'He doesn't deserve another cent'.

The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) is calling on the SABC's interim board to urgently act to prevent further mega-millions to be paid to the fired former SABC executive, the famously matricless Hlaudi Motsoeneng, who plunged the beleaguered South African public broadcaster into bankruptcy and an existential crisis.

OUTA is pleading with the SABC's interim board to urgently block any payments to the disgraced former SABC chief operating officer as South African president Jacob Zuma keeps delaying his signing of an order to have the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) from starting a corruption probe into the maladministration at the SABC.

"OUTA is concerned that former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng will, now that he has been dismissed, attempt to claim millions in pension and other benefits," says OUTA in a letter to Khanyisile Kweyama, chairperson of the SABC interim board.

"We note reports that president Jacob Zuma is delaying the approval of the Special Investigating Unit investigation into the SABC, which may result in Hlaudi Motsoeneng receiving more undeserved payouts," says Dominique Msibi, OUTA portfolio director for social services.

"Hlaudi Motsoeneng does not deserve one cent more."

"OUTA believes that Hlaudi Motsoeneng caused substantial financial and reputational damage to the SABC and we support attempts to claim back illegitimate payments made to him."

"We believe those claims should include -  but are not limited to - the salary paid while he was on suspension and the illegitimate R11.4 million bonus he secured during the dubious MultiChoice deal."

"Any pension or other benefits due to Hlaudi Motsoeneng should be forfeited to the SABC to compensate for his looting".

"We believe there's already enough justifiable cause to block any payouts to Hlaudi Motsoeneng, since his employment appointment was irregular, was based on falsified information which he provided, there is already credible information available about the illegitimate deals from which he benefited and we understand that the SABC interim board's own investigations are continuing".

BREAKING. SABC finally fires controversial Hlaudi Motsoeneng after former COO found guilty of causing irreparable damage to public broadcaster.

The SABC has fired the guilty Hlaudi Motsoeneng after a disciplinary hearing found the former chief operating officer (COO) of the beleaguered South African public broadcaster guilty on all charges, including bringing the SABC into disrepute and causing irreparable damage to the SABC.

The SABC on Monday morning called another hastily arranged press conference set for 15:00 on Monday afternoon that eventually started at 15:42 - late as all SABC press briefings the past year and a half.

Advocate Nazeer Cassim who chaired the disciplinary hearing, handed his judgment to the SABC on Monday morning.

SABC chairperson Khanyisile Kweyama at Monday afternoon's press conference that was carried as a live broadcast on eNCA (DStv 403), SABC News (DStv 404) and ANN7 (DStv 405), addressed and took some questions from a group of journalists from various media outlets as well as several SABC journalists.

Some more SABC News journalists and staffers stood at the wall, intently listening to everything being said.

In all, less media and press attended the hastily called presser than in the past.

During the press conference Khanyisile Kweyama revealed and confirmed that Hlaudi Motsoeneng's unilaterally imposed 90% content quota directly, and negatively impacted the SABC's revenue.

She revealed that the SABC has canned the controversial Gupta-owned The New Age Breakfast Briefings broadcast on SABC2 with the one this past Friday, 9 June that was the last one.

She said that the last of the controversial The New Age Breakfast briefings broadcast on SABC2 during Morning Live was held on Friday and that the SABC is working to extract itself from the contract.

On Hlaudi Motsoeneng's imposed SABC News censorship and ban on using visuals on SABC TV News bulletins or live coverage of destruction of property she said that " the ban on the use of violent visuals have been rescinded. Journalists may use footage as they see fit".

On the controversial 90% local content quota that decimated SABC radio listenership and TV viewership, especially SABC3, and called "90 10" [ninety-ten], Khanyilise Kweyama said "the SABC interim board is not anti-transformation".

"90/10 was a bit drastic. 90/10 has been a source of revenue loss if implemented across all [SABC] platform. There are certain channels that are quite high that have achieved 80%, and we are therefore not going to say to those channels regress to 50%".

"When they have achieved and they are breaking even, and they are making the profits that are necessary, we will leave them alone," said Khanyilise Kweyama.


Hlaudi Motsoeneng fired
On Hlaudi Motsoeneng's firing, Khanyilise Kweyama said the SABC had charges him with misconduct and of breaking the rules of his employment contract.

"Nazeer Cassim gave us feedback this morning and he has recommended, which the board has accepted, that Hlaudi Motsoeneng be dismissed from the SABC. The SABC interim board has accepted those recommendations and we have communicated with Hlaudi Motsoeneng his dismissal from the SABC."

"I will not go into the details for the notice period and all those as those are people's files that are specific."


Suspension of James Aguma
On the suspension of James Aguma also undergoing a disciplinary hearing process and who was acting SABC CEO, Khanyilise Kweyama said "I will not comment on James Aguma as we are still in a process. We have charged, the process is underway."


SABC's 'infamous MultiChoice deal'
An SABC journalist asked Khanyilise Kweyama about "the infamous MultiChoice deal" and whether the SABC is for termination or renegotiation.

The SABC is supplying MultiChoice with the SABC News (DStv 404) and SABC Encore (DStv 156) rerun library channels for the DStv satellite pay-TV platform.

"We are in conversations with MultiChoice on that contract. That contract starts being renegotiated 18 months ahead of its expiry period which is around now."

"At this stage I cannot comment on whether we will renew, review, adjust, but we have started the negotiations.

"The SABC archives were not sold to MultiChoice. A tape a day goes to MultiChoice," said Khanyilise Kweyama.

"If there are any grey areas, as an interim SABC board, as we enter into this negotiating phase, we will pick those out, and that will also be a determining factor as to whether we continue with that contract, or adjust, review, or start from scratch."


SABC's new government bailout of billions
"I won't say the amount," said Khanyilise Kweyama when asked about the cash-strapped SABC's latest request for a government bailout of likely billions of rand to save the SABC from the brink of financial collapse.

"The latest is that we are at a stage where the two ministers - minister of communications and minister of finance - are discussing the bailout".


SABC not paying producers but able to pay staff
"We have publicly said that the financial situation of the SABC is in a bad state," said Khanyilise Kweyama, who said SABC staffers are being paid.

She however said nothing about producers supplying content to the SABC who are not being paid for months now.

"The fact that we are applying for a bailout says that the situation is dire."

"On the salaries, we have paid salaries in March. We did pay salaries in April. We did pay salaries in May. Are we tightening the belt? Are we sometimes robbing Peter to pay Paul? Yes, we are sometimes doing that."

"But at no stage in the past 3 months have salaries of staff been in jeopardy," said Khanyilise Kweyama.

"The only people who haven't been paid are the board."

"We are in the red but we don manage by ensuring the board is always on top of everything."

"We do still need to be rescued."

SABC's Hlaudi Motsoeneng in ANN7 interview slams 'clever blacks' for attacking president Zuma; claims MultiChoice pays for whole SABC newsroom operations.

Speaking in a third unauthorised public appearance on Sunday night, the controversial SABC employee Hlaudi Motsoeneng slammed "clever blacks" for criticising president Jacob Zuma.

On Sunday night the suspended Hlaudi Motsoeneng who confirmed that "I'm still an employee of the SABC" did an interview on the Gupta-owned ANN7 TV news channel on DStv, a few days after his own press conference on Wednesday that he followed up with an interview on Thursday on the eNCA news channel.

After the SABC interim chairperson Khanyisile Kweyama said on Friday that Hlaudi Motsoeneng – who is awaiting another disciplinary hearing – isn't allowed to speak publicly as an SABC employee, he went and ramped up his public statements on Sunday night by making political statements and again slammed the SABC board member Krish Naidoo as a liar.

Hlaudi Motsoeneng spoke on ANN7's Straight Talk programme where interviewer Sifiso Mahlangu lobbed several-softball questions to Hlaudi Motsoeneng during the half-hour ANN7 show.

"The DA represents liberals. You can't run away from that point of view. They just have face when you look at Maimane, Mmusi Maimaine, just the face there. This people are using him," said Hlaudi Motsoeneng.

"I'm always surprise that a black person – when you have many, many, many, many white people who [you] don't see media running after white people. But we see media and the DA running after black people."

"If you can check, people are not just attacking Hlaudi. They're attacking all those people who have been doing very well, like Brian Molefe, like [Tom] Moyane, Sars commissioner, and many, many people they have been attacking them, that I think they’re radical, they know what they do. They know what South Africans want."

Hlaudi Motsoeneng said "you can see there’s many opportunists within the SABC, especially people who are disgruntled, people who are not supporting transformation within that organisation, who went and lied during the ad hoc committee".

Hlaudi Motsoeneng again slammed SABC board member Krish Naidoo and claimed Naidoo lied during parliament’sad hoc committee investigation into maladministration and corruption at the SABC.

Hlaudi Motsoeneng said "we live in a democratical society" and that "for the first time in history, all of them in parliament, they collude, all of them, under the name of Hlaudi" to get rid of him.

Hlaudi Motsoeneng also attacked the former SABC journalist and contributing editor Vuyo Mvoko, now working for eNCA, and who was fired as one of the so-called "SABC8" when they protested SABC censorship during 2016.

"I don't know what Vuyo Mvoko knows. Remember Vuyo Mvoko was working for the Guptas himself, so I don't know what happened between him and the Guptas."

Claim: DStv pays for whole SABC newsroom

Hlaudi Motsoeneng made a new revelation during the Sunday evening interview, addressing the SABC's controversial contract with MultiChoice in which the public broadcaster supplies the SABC News and SABC Encore TV channels to DStv.

He claimed that the commercial pay-TV company is paying for the public broadcaster's entire news operation.

"I have been saying, the money that we are getting from MultiChoice, it pays the operations of the SABC – the whole newsroom, not for DStv 404 channel."

"If you cancel that contract, which means people are going to be unemployed."

'Media believes black people can’t rule'

"The reason why media attack government is because they still believe that black people can't rule. It's a pity that you have so-called clever blacks who are also joining to criticise, especially some of the leaders in this country – president Zuma is one of them," said Hlaudi Motsoeneng.

"President Zuma is under attack. And why he's under attack, is because he's talking about radical transformation. So when you touch those issues, you touch the real nerves of some of people who don’t want that change to happen".

"The problem is not white people in South Africa. It's not white people. They are powerless. We are in charge as black people. We must implement what we need to implement in South Africa."

Hlaudi Motsoeneng said: "We are not saying chase away the white people. They are part of us, we are part of them. But they shall understand there must be equity among all of us."

The cake should be shared

Hlaudi Motsoeneng said he asked SABC cleaners why they want to work for other people.

He wanted to empower the cleaners so that they own their own company. "I said the cake should be shared, not just these big companies."

Addressing the situation of the SABC being on the verge of financial collapse needing another billion rand bail-out from government, he said "the reason why the SABC were having all this repeats [on TV], some of them they were just happy to have R1.4 billion in the bank."

"I asked them you have R1.4 billion in the bank, but you are not empowering black people."

"South Africans they are very crazy when it comes to Hlaudi, so I know, that really I'm in demand. I don't have a problem. But I have been saying to people I'm going to enjoy myself in that disciplinary hearing, because I enjoy everything that I do. Whether it is dismissal, I will enjoy it."

Khanyisile Kweyama recommended as new SABC chairperson of the to be appointed interim SABC board.

Khanyisile Kweyama has been recommended in an urgent meeting by parliament's parliament's portfolio committee on communications to become the new SABC chairperson of the to be appointed SABC interim board.

The beleaguered SABC, mired in allegations of corruption, mismanagement and maladministration has been left rudderless for months.

The SABC has been without any SABC board or board members, no permanent CEO and COO for months and has been absolutely gutted after the firing of numerous top executives who are all gone after the sprawling internal management destruction wreaked inside the public broadcaster by the controversial former COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng.

The respected veteran journalist and former newspaper editor Mathatha Tsedu were recommended as deputy SABC chairperson, while Krish Naidoo, Febe Potgieter-Gqubule and John Mattison were recommended as interim SABC board members.

Krish Naidoo is a former SABC board member. He resigned spectacularly and with dramatic effect in late December 2016 in parliament during parliament's investigation into the shocking maladministration of the SABC and made several damning revelations about the SABC's flouting of corporate governance requirements.

Veteran journalist and editor John Mattison is a former broadcasting regulator councillor and responsible for the SABC's election coverage in 1994.

Khanyisile Kweyama who has a masters degree in management from Wits university, is the former CEO of Business Unity South Africa (Busa) and a former executive director of Anglo American SA, the first woman to hold such position at that company, and a former Telkom board member.

Khanyisile Kweyama also served on the National Planning Commission appointed by the president and served on a provincial group fighting racism in Gauteng, appointed by the Gauteng premier.

What happens now is that the portfolio committee on communication's report, recommending the interim SABC chairperson and interim SABC board members, is sent to the National Assembly.

On Wednesday the report is tabled at the National Assembly, after which it is sent to president Jacob Zuma to basically rubber-stamp and approve the appointments, making it official.